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Author Topic: Creating electric energy for your home  (Read 8829 times)

quimkaos

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Creating electric energy for your home
« on: May 08, 2005, 04:00:42 AM »
can we start a discussion in how we can efficiently make our own home eletrical energy by using glass in the windows, wind it self (eolic and solar) and others...
not talking about power saving...
it's about making your house self-suffient in energy matters, plus you dont neading to be an expert in science

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quimkaos

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Re: Creating electric energy for your home
« Reply #1 on: May 08, 2005, 04:08:20 AM »
*(...), plus not neading to be an expert in science.

(yeha i'm not english or american - so my english is 2 bad... plus i'm wrighting it with 1 hand couse of an motorcicle accident)

kenbo0422

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Re: Creating electric energy for your home
« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2005, 02:19:43 PM »
Well, they seem to love to partially mirror windows to keep the heat out of the buildings... would that be a good start?  I mean, if you can 'plate' a window, then what kinds of plating could you use and to what density to still allow light through, but usable as a solar cell...

For that matter, what about sandwiching plates and using the inside of the plates for a heating process, for direct heat transfer or indirectly producing electricity?

homesteadvt24

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Re: Creating electric energy for your home
« Reply #3 on: May 25, 2005, 12:34:58 PM »
The first step in generating your own power is to use less of it. Conservation is the key to affordable self-generated power. Most components for solar/wind/micro-hydro generation are expensive. Conservation first, will decrease the cost of self-generating power systems making them affordable to the mainstream public. Off-grid and lovin it
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lanca

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Re: Creating electric energy for your home
« Reply #4 on: June 04, 2005, 03:45:37 AM »
somebody want to get the negawatt-house,but is this  really a need?
in my mind only if people want to get a moveable home like habitaflex or fpb/GE modular space,because to be autonom and grid-independant.

HEC

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Re: Creating electric energy for your home
« Reply #5 on: August 06, 2005, 12:56:28 AM »
Hi,

              About the enegry conservation, yes it is a logic idea using products with less energy consumption,  but there is a truth in all of this and that is that not all electronic engineers (refering my field of work) care too much about the power their designs consumes , and in many cases even if they care about it, time critical projects and dead lines usually put in the market a product without the optimization that could help in the topic of energy conservation. So, my point is that first of all, people should realize the importance of it and i?m not talking just about the engineers, but the investors as well as every one involved in the process of making a new product that make use of electricity (but when money talks......)



therackals

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Re: Creating electric energy for your home
« Reply #6 on: July 09, 2006, 11:52:02 PM »
if you use the windows of your house to generate electricity you stop the sunlight (infra red) coming in. this stops solar heating so that you now require more internal heating...